Opinion

The Nigeria Police has had a rugged past and the picture we see in the present does not give us a hope for the future. Since 1999, the Nigeria Police strength has grown from 112,000 to a little…

I cast my ballot in the 2020 United States General Election last Friday, some four weeks ahead of the official Election Day, November 3. It took me seven uneventful minutes.  I lined…

If you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo was a collegiate champion at the University of Missouri in the…

Anyone who has followed testimonies (backed mostly by video evidence) from victims of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) knows it would take more than feeble press statements to change the orientation of those who…

SINCE the news of the emergence of Tokunbo Abiru as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming Lagos East Senatorial bye-election, some politicians in the state have been unsettled as…

We have seen the allegations circulating on social media as well as the online reports of the court summons of which we are yet unaware. The fact is that Dapo Apara began making his…

“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been…

As ordinary Nigerians await the 2023 dateline for general elections, permutations over who will succeed Muhammadu Buhari as President of Nigeria seems to have commenced.…

WE concluded on this page last week that efforts at resolving the national question through constitutional negotiations like statesmen ended with the British-midwifed 1958 Independent Constitution.  Every other…

Most of us, journalists –especially the cub, street reporters- are like duck hunters. We are the human version of skilled predators in the wild, if you like. But when we get too fainthearted, especially before…

Mr. Eniola Bello, also known by the popular sobriquet, Eni-B, is one of the finest prose stylists and perhaps compelling political analysts in contemporary Nigerian journalism. His skills in this regard were on…

In my previous article, ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day celebrations, I tried to examine the root of Nigeria’s divisive politicking. In what many saw as a sacrilegious criticism…

As Nigeria marks her 60th Independence Anniversary, a significant part of the discourse will centre on national development, President Muhammadu Buhari himself, and to some extent, his team. It has been some five…

Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line and Ancillary Facility Yard has been commissioned for…

As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are…

At 60, Nigeria has not quite lived its promising, post-Civil War re-set at 10.  Nor did it at 10, collapse in unbridled catastrophe, as the omens were at 5. At independence in October 1960, the first ruling…

In a tour de force of hard won reporting, the New York Times has put numerical clothing on what we’ve known about President Donald Trump for decades — that, at best, he’s a…

Almost throughout the season of Covid-19 panic and frenzy in Nigeria, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State stood out, not as an object of praise and adoration but as a public figure of…

The British colonialists chucked the power console to the aborigines of Nigeria in 1960. Let me rephrase that. The British prowlers tossed power into the palm of native champions and…

Bola Tinubu, national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), for some strange and unnecessary reason, made himself an issue in the just concluded Edo State governorship election. For an election whose…

We often tell ourselves a lot of beautiful lies in Nigeria. One of my favourite is the saying: “This is not the dream of our founding fathers.” By that, we often try to claim our founding fathers had a dream for…

By Umair Haque It almost seems like a lifetime ago, given the untimely and tragic passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And yet, as the U.S. passes the grim…

The much hyped Edo state governorship election has finally come and gone. Following the release of the election timetable a few months ago, political parties and other stakeholders in…

ESTRANGED former University of Lagos Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Dr. Wale Babalakin, SAN, has eminent right to resist any assault on his rights.  That is his natural forte, being a…